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“Nearly a hundred years ago it was known that a ghost used be seen near Kilnamora chapel on the Caherbane road.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“Nearly a hundred years ago it was known that a ghost used be seen near Kilnamora chapel on the Caherbane road.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“About a quarter of a mile from our home in Kilmaley is the townland of Gurtaganniv.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“About eighty years ago there was a curate in Kilnamona named Father Joe Meade.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Tomás Mac Giolla Pádraig
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“When my father was a young man - a little over twenty he had a greyhound which he and his neighbours believed to be a pretty good one..”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“A good many years there lived, about two miles from Kilrush a man called Storcaí Sheáin Howe.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“When my father was a child eleven or twelve years of age a man named Murty Keating was considered the best hurler in Kilmaley.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“Fadó riamh biodh spioradh le feiscint i mBeál Átha Cailleach...”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“One of our nearest neighbours in Kilmaley was a man named Thomas McGann.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Seán Devereux
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“Once a young chap in Caraher was coming home late at night from his cuairt.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Pádraig Ó Ceárnaigh
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“Is ó O'Callaghan's Mills i nOirthear an Chláir a tháinig athair mo shin-shean-athar go Cill Mháille.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“About ninety years ago tenant farmers in Clare had not the right to dispose of their interest or good will in a farm.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“About a hundred years ago (about thirty years before Miceál Mac Conamara went as an apprentice to Kilrush) there was a widow living near Carrigaholt.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“In Kilmaley Friday was regarded as a lucky day to begin work.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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“When Micheál was a youngster he lived in Drumanure Kilmaley, later he moved to Loughburke and from there he came to Knockadangan.”
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Ristéard Mac Cormaic
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bean Uí Cheallaigh, Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill, Micheál Ó Cathasaigh
Kilmaley, Co. Clare
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